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Sunday, November 14, 2010

NewsWrap for the week ending Nov. 13, 2010

SUMMARY

Hear No Marriage - Colombia's Constitutional Court refuses to take up a marriage equality lawsuit ...

Down the Aisle - marriage equality legislation is on the move in the states of South Australia, Tasmania, and Victoria ...

Don't Ask Us - U.S. Supreme Court refuses to lift the 9th Circuit Court's stay of a lower court's injunction that would have banned enforcement of Don't Ask Don't Tell, and the ACLU sues the Air Force over equal separation pay for a service member who was honorably discharged under the policy ...

Don't Tell John - more leaks of the pending Pentagon study considering how best to implement Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal underscores the findings that a vast majority of the troops don't have a problem serving with open gays and lesbians, but Arizona's John McCain vows to continue his threatened filibuster against repeal in the upcoming lame-duck Senate session ...

Lame Duck Sprint - out gay Congressman Barney Frank says there's "zero chance" of passing any pro-LGBT legislation in the new Republican-controlled House next year, but Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she wants to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act in the lame-duck Congress before she yields her leadership role to the presumed new Republican House Speaker John Boehner in January ...

Indefensible - new lawsuits challenge the Defense of Marriage Act in two federal courts ...

Buzzard Break-up - a pair of male vultures at a German zoo are being split up because they're lousy nest-builders ...